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DOOR HANGER.

Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN CLARKE, OF TORONTO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDREV FORESTER BARRON, OF SARNIA, ONTARIO, CANADA.

DOORHHANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,693, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed August 6, 1888. Serial No. 282,041. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN CLARKE, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, inventor, have invented a certain new and Improved Support for Sliding Doors. of which the following is a specification.

The object oi the invention is to design a simple and easily-applied rolling support by which a sliding door may be evenly carried and be kept perfectly plumb without the necessity of laying a track across the opening' between the jambs of the door; and it consists in the peculiar combinations and the novel construction and arrangement of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l is an elevation of a pair of doors and doorway partially in section to expose the construction of my device. Fig. 2 is a perspective detail of the upper roller and its bracket. Fig. 3 is a detail of the bottom rail of the door, showinga substitute Afor the lower roller. Fig. 4f is a detail of the upper rail ot' the door, showing a substitute Afor the upper roller.

A is the door, and B a roller journalcd in a suitable bracket securedto the lower inner corner of the door A. This roller rests upon a track, C, which, when the door slides into a bracket or recess, as indicated in Fig. i, is slipped into the said recess, as shown, and is very simply VFixed in position in the `following manner-rfi. @.a cross-bar, c, made just long enough to extend across the pocket or recess, is fixed to the inner end of the track C, so that when the said track is slipped into the pocket its inner end will be held by the cross-bar c exactly in the center of the said pocket. A similar cross-bar, b, is fixed to the outer end of the track C in such aposition that it may be readily screwed onto the floor. Separate pieces on each side of the track C may be subf stituted for the cross-bar b.

D is a bracket secured to the upper outer corner of the door A, and has jaws d Vformed on it, between which an adj usting bearing-box, e, is fitted. A pair of rollers, E, is journaled in the bearing c, and rests upon a double track, F, located above the door, and extending across the doorway. A shank,f, is connected to the bearing c and extends through the bracket D and a wedge-shaped block, G. A pin, f, passes through the shank f, immediately below the wedge-shaped block G. A screw, I-I, passes through a hole in the bracket D and screws into the back of the block G. It will Y thus be seen that by simply adjusting the block G by means of the screw H the bearing-box e maybe raised or lowered in its jaws d, and through the said adjustment the door Amay be made perfectly level.

Instead of the roller B a bent plate, I, as

shown in Fig. 3, may be used, and instead of REUBEN CLARKE.

In presence of- CHARLES C. BALDWIN, CHAs. H. RIcHEs. 

